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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 6, 2016, 23:52 |
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jdreyer wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 17:08:
I think that it's strange that Valve doesn't spend its billions on a high-performing Wine alternative. If they truly feel threatened by Windows, this is the way to go. It allows people to install Linux, have access to all their legacy titles, and allows Valve full control over their client. Win-win-win.
That wouldn't be worth it, if something like that became widespread enough Microsoft could and would mess with it. It would turn into a game of cat and mouse where every fix takes a lot more time and effort than the breaks Microsoft adds, because "reasons".
It would be far more worth their while to simply make their new Source Engine run Vulkan (no support for DirectX) and make it free to use with decent documentation. That could have a lot of benefits both for Valve and the gaming industry to and extent.
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 6, 2016, 23:41 |
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J wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 14:01:
/pats Windows 7 on the head
You're a good boy. Yes you are. Who's a good boy? You are!
/makes a fuss of Windows 7
My previous Windows 7 install lasted close to 6 years and was still working fine, until the motherboard gave in.
Current Win7 install has been going for close to a year and only had one system crash thanks to AV/Firewall having a fight.
To think it came out while that weirdo Steve Ballmer was CEO of Microsoft, noone seemed to like him, look how things are going since...
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| News Comments > Prey Trailers |
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Re: Prey Trailers |
Aug 5, 2016, 14:11 |
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UttiniDaKilrJawa wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 01:03:
Actually, its not any form of brand r4pe at all. At first I thought why the hell is this even called Prey it has nothing to do with the original AT ALL.
Then I saw this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VeMnngn2UM
Prey is not a sequel, it's not a remake, it has no tie with ahh, with the original..
Then why call it Prey?!!1111one
UttiniDaKilrJawa wrote on Aug 5, 2016, 01:03:
It seems to me now that they are using the title Prey as in the human race is prey for this alien force.
Like how in the original Prey humans, amongst others, where a resource for the aliens, being harvested, kinda like food would be, thus Prey. Yes no similarities to "using the title Prey as in the human race is prey for this alien force" at all, (eyes rolls out of head).
At first it was just annoying that they would use another IP's name to make an entirely different game, though to have some come to the defense of that is beyond annoying even without arguments as weak as wet toilet paper.
I wouldn't have called it brand rape, rape is such a dull overused word. Though if that's where you want to put the posts then it absolutely is.
They're using an established brand, purely because it's established and has hype, has interest. They want to sail on it's coattails for extra exposure at the expense of the original franchise (keep in mind Bethesda owns the rights to Prey, as in the original game).
I thought the original Prey was okay (lots of fun, indian thing annoyed the hell out of me, but good gameplay) I enjoyed it though am not a rabid fan. Still molesting an established franchise purely for that attention is a shitty thing to do, while defending that is plane stupid.
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| News Comments > Prey Trailers |
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Re: Prey Trailers |
Aug 5, 2016, 13:50 |
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This looks interesting, though I also don't see why they should molest an established IP. The canceled Prey 2 videos looked good, though now this is meant to be Prey.
It doesn't matter how good this is, it's a completely different game. It's like making a new Thief game as a shooter with "headshots" and damage numbers popping up.
Just go make a new IP for heavens sake, stop listening to the idiots in marketing when it comes to this.
The Half Elf wrote on Aug 4, 2016, 19:48:
Welcome to Bioshock in space.
System Shock. Bioshock being System Shock under water instead of in space seems very odd to say Bioshock in space. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Please stop using Videosift. |
Aug 3, 2016, 21:58 |
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Curious why videos are often linked to the videosift.com website since they're always just Youtube videos?
I always end up having to open the video on the Youtube site because the videosift.com site is a pain. Not to mention this time I tried to do the usual and it tells me "You've Been Blacklisted..". It's either IP related (my IP changes at the will of the ISP) or it's because I have adblocking, regardless if it's happening to me (who only goes there once in a while because of Blue's) it's no doubt happening to others also. Anyway it's always seemed like a useless site.
If that awful videosift site is used to help people at work who may have the youtube site blocked, I'd suggest instead using www.nsfwYouTube.com. It simply embeds the youtube video onto the page handily using it's video's URL id.
for example... http://www.nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=WZlyz6LL6vg
Also with nsfwYouTube you don't even need to enable scripts for the nsfwYouTube site to watch Youtube videos via it (unlike the heinous Videosift). Add to that some element blocking and you end up with a page showing almost nothing more than the video you want.
edit....
I'm guessing this is the video..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxI_XuR9yk
easy change for nsfwYouTube
www.nsfwyoutube.com/watch?v=MYxI_XuR9yk
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| News Comments > New AMD Crimson Drivers |
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Re: New AMD Crimson Drivers |
Jul 29, 2016, 22:55 |
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CJ_Parker wrote on Jul 29, 2016, 20:10:
Dirty Butler wrote on Jul 29, 2016, 18:32:
Ozmodan wrote on Jul 29, 2016, 17:53:
Every AMD card I have purchased, I have had major issues with because of the drivers. Yes, they eventually get straightened out, but it takes them awhile. I finally learned and buy strictly Nvidia lately and have not had any issues at all with drivers.
That's funny, nVidia drivers have had way more major issues than AMD lately including actually damaging cards due to bad fan profiles.
Complete bullshit.
The fan issue only affected the GTX 1080 Founder's Edition and was fixed very quickly within a matter of days. It also did not damage any cards. It only damaged the users' nerves because the fan kept revving up and down randomly.
Like Ozmodan, I have also not had any issues with nVidia drivers for years. It's been smooth sailing all the time. I clean-install every driver update which causes a bit more work but the two minutes it takes to reenter my global settings is time well spent. Better than being a lazy bum and having to fix shit for hours in case something goes wrong by overwriting the older version.
I presumed the reference to the card damaging Nvidia driver was a little before the Geforce 10x series release, they were having a pretty long string of problem drivers, even one that was a fix for some problem ended up having other serious problems. Went on and on with widespread complains and jokes about using very old drivers.
And as for "I" have not had problems. It's the most useless expression there is, like someone going on about how hard drive brand X is better because that precious snowflake hasn't had a problem yet. Anecdotes of that kind are the worst. It's like teen chat tech support.
I can get people venting when they are having problems, needing to blow off some steam. Though going on about how supposedly some brand behaves perfect for "me" so it's therefore perfect blablabla, especially when countless people were moaning and troubleshooting over months, it shows far more about the person saying it than the brand.
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| News Comments > SHINY Announced |
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Re: SHINY |
Jul 28, 2016, 12:13 |
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nin wrote on Jul 28, 2016, 11:37:
NetHead wrote on Jul 28, 2016, 11:29:
and that Matrix game.
Still too soon. What a piece of shit that was...
I have such mixed feeling about that game. There was so much bad about it, indisputably. Though I still had some good fun with it and was still enjoying The Matrix theme at the time so that probably helped.
On the subject of 1C Company though, where the hell is King's Bounty 2. I never finished any of their King's Bounty games but enjoyed what I did play of them and know someone who's crazy about them. Then there's loads of fans wanting more and not much competition, hope they're working on something there. |
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| News Comments > More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
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Re: More Win10 Concerns from Tim Sweeney |
Jul 26, 2016, 18:06 |
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CJ_Parker wrote on Jul 26, 2016, 11:39:
Sweeney is almost completely right. Only a matter of time until MS shuts the gates behind everyone (maybe when Win 10 adoption has reached 90% or so?). It won't be tomorrow, next month or even next year but give it a couple of years and then the hammer will drop.
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It is incredibly naive to downplay or ignore these blatant issues...
Embrace Extend Extinguish
It's always surprising how many people think someone raising such concerns is paranoid or delusional. It's nothing new yet remains surprising because you'd think people would wise up over time, though not only does that not seem to happen, these days there are more people than ever adding their naive voice to the crowd.
Here we have one of the most intelligent people in gaming/tech sphere, with more experience, knowledge and connections in so many areas it's unlikely anyone here could even match him in a single one of those areas, saying that Microsoft is going to do what they have a reputation for doing while trying to benefit themselves and some people shout how he's nuts or flat out wrong.
It almost boggles the mind how some people can be so pompous, going through life like frogs in warming water.
It's like someone's told them the Earth isn't flat and they're ranting about how that someone is wrong with ridiculous and stupid reasons and comparisons. The reply's are so stupid they're not even worth correcting.
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| News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs |
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Re: Morning Legal Briefs |
Jul 22, 2016, 15:53 |
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I think it's rather silly to ban people from things like Twotter of Facespace etc. Mostly because, since they're saying these things publicly it's a great opportunity to potentially get warning about something someone's going to do, or a great way to keep track of the crazies.
With them putting this stuff on the internet for all the world to see, there's no qualms about it being harvested by agencies as far as I'm concerned. So let the crazies make it easier to track the crazies I'd say, rather than trying to ban or prevent them.
As for others not wanting to listen to their nonsense, don't. Ignore or block them if you don't want to hear them.
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| News Comments > Sid Meier's Civilization VI Preorder Bonus |
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Re: Sid Meier's Civilization VI Preorder Bonus |
Jul 22, 2016, 12:03 |
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Numinar wrote on Jul 21, 2016, 22:19:
....they are bound to polish it up and add the missing content, just need to wait until a few years after release and get it all cheap.
I wonder how much this actually hurts sales/devs/publishers. Not that I'm against anyone waiting for a "complete" or patched version which often ends up cheaper, I do it aswell (virtually all the time). I'm just genuinely curious how much it effects their profit.
For instance if they came out and released the entire game, fully fleshed out and almost entirely patched (baring a few bugs that are forgivable to miss), would the early sales especially at early prices be worthwhile. What if someone had a reputation of releasing things in a solid state, especially in these times of releasing "release candidate" versions.
I can see and understand them trying to mitigate risk, with the attitude of releasing as soon as possible and patching/adding form there depending on success and demand. Though are they maybe shooting themselves in the toe overall, as more people seem to be reluctant to be an early customer.
This seems to be one of the downsides to digital distribution, patching is quick and cheap, also easy for the customer compared to days of disc (remember getting patches of demo discs from magazines). It's gotten so bad even console games these days make old PC games look solid, contrast that with how old console games were pretty much rock solid from day 1.
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| News Comments > Morning Patches |
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Re: Morning Patches |
Jul 20, 2016, 20:14 |
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Bumpy wrote on Jul 20, 2016, 13:05:
Yup, still waiting for Mech single player ala Mechwarrior 2.
Maybe in the next decade.
Mechwarrior 2 Mercenaries, now that was such a great game in it's day. I spent so much time replaying that, doing every branching mission eventually finding out which of the branching missions to do for the best rewards and which layout/mech to use. If I remember right you could even get a salvage in the first tutorial like mission.
It's all so hazy now but I still remember getting a salvage at some insane range with a PPC, couldn't even see the other mech but still hit it in the cockpit.
I still remember the atmosphere of the game so well though, the sounds and colours when doing loadouts and choosing missions etc, hell even the sounds the buttons made lol. It was amazing back then, though tried to replay it some time ago but just couldn't.
A worthy successor to that with modern tech would be so much fun to play singleplayer, while some co-op would just be icing on the cake.
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Jul 19, 2016, 17:49 |
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Tachikoma wrote on Jul 19, 2016, 16:09:
Luke wrote on Jul 19, 2016, 09:30:
Well bye bye opera you now i the hands of chinese so i am out 
Opera was dead since going full chrome. Nothing to do with "the chinese". 12.1 is the last decent version, still installed on my machine for nostalgia sake and as a backup browser.
I`ll miss it dearly just as I miss the wild heady days of pre-corporate internet. It was an amazing product, light years ahead of the competition.
There`s that Vivaldi browser thingy now, made by members of the original O-team - however it`s still fully based on chromium so of no interest to me.
Opera was great once, I think it may have been the first with tabs, that I remember anyway. It suddenly made browsing almost pleasant compared to things like IE. I think they even had basic mouse gestures way back then.
They set the bar really high way back then, which makes it all the more ridiculous were we are today.
Each time I'm temped to try it again I'm reminded it moved to chromium which doesn't thrill me either.
Though that also makes me wonder if Opera could be used in place of Chrome for certain things that rely on Chrome. Like years ago playing PoE there was a Chrome addon for item recipes, if ever wanting to use something like that again I'd much rather have a portable Opera/chromium than Chrome if possible.
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Jul 19, 2016, 17:38 |
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Creston wrote on Jul 19, 2016, 14:27:
descender wrote on Jul 19, 2016, 14:19:
At least it looks like Wired stopped with the full page "stop using an adblocker" thing they had going for a while.
That was hilarious. "We are Wired, and we will force you to turn off your ad-blocker to read our magnificent content!!!!"
*viewership falls to nothing.*
"Guys...? Guys...? Anyone?"
*crickets by moonlight*
I used to goto Wired quite regularly, though stopped well before that forced advert nonsense of theirs (which has never worked properly fyi).
Back when the Snowden leaks were happening, Wired, instead of reporting on it, decided to add their own moral and political views into everything they covered about it. Not only did they do that but they did it in such a blatant way it made me feel sick and infuriated just opening their site or having anything to do with them.
Once they did that, rather than even pretending to just reporting news, Wired has zero credibility as far as I'm concerned.
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| News Comments > Evening Safety Dance |
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Re: Evening Safety Dance |
Jul 19, 2016, 02:53 |
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I remember using Maxthon when it started out, was great back then, compared to IE anyway. Though left it for Opera and Firefox.
Tried it again years ago but didn't like what they were doing with it, it just felt like it was going in completely the wrong direction, becoming less browser and more other stuff.
These days I feel something similar to that when looking at a newer Firefox version.
Would have thought by now there would be standard default, sensible, gestures with all stock browsers (and a world of other sensible features), along with decent security and privacy related settings. Instead they're to busy adding social this and that to even bother having half decent cookie management nevermind anything substantial.
Hell last time I checked Firefox it still had the long running stupidity of things being able to add Plugins/Extensions to the browser without any user permission or even notification from Firefox. To top that off Firefox wouldn't even allow the user to simply remove them, one would have to go digging into the browsers files editing/deleting things to get rid of them.
It's almost as if it's a damned feature in Firefox to be able to install things into it without permission that are a complete pain and frustration for the user to remove.
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| News Comments > Windows Gaming Survey |
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Re: Windows Gaming Survey |
Jul 9, 2016, 22:30 |
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CJ_Parker wrote on Jul 8, 2016, 18:17:
Finally admitting they don't know what PC gamers want...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA right fucking on! 
The questions in that survey blatantly show their ignorance, silly assumptions etc.
Primalchrome wrote on Jul 8, 2016, 20:58:
I was disappointed that they tried to keep the word association game positive. I really had to dig to find something positive to check about Razer, Xbox, and Microsoft.
I chose "never heard of them" I'm not going to say positive things about crap lol.
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Jul 9, 2016, 09:14 |
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How can this not be illegal. Using deliberately false information to get someone to pay for something or otherwise hand over money.
Sounds like fraud to me.
You'd think with it being done to tens of thousands of people and attempted on many more, there would be someone ripping these people and the company a new one with decision makers getting a free, long stay in a government facility.
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| News Comments > AMD Drivers Address Power Issues |
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Re: AMD Drivers Address Power Issues |
Jul 8, 2016, 09:32 |
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Drayth wrote on Jul 8, 2016, 06:26:
Simon Says wrote on Jul 8, 2016, 03:47:
As for "buying into a brand's marketing", that would be relevant if it wasn't so off the mark. My GPU buying history speaks for itself, I never had any preference nor will I ever have any.
No, I said marketing image. Like (but very much not limited to) those who think one company is more evil / good than the other, when really they're both doing what ever it is they can with what they have to cut into the other's sales.
They may both be doing things to increase their own sales/cut into the others sales. Though I would unreservedly say the one doing it with proprietary things that cost more, while trying to lock people into their arbitrary "ecosystem", is absolutely underhanded at best.
It's even worse than Apple doing it. Apple at least goes their own way making their own products/systems altogether.
Here though a company is trying to do this nonsense on the PC platform, what started as the IBM platform which is what it is today thanks to it being open, which is the reason we enjoy being able to buy from so many companies to replace a part.
So it may not be "evil", though it certainly is shitty, anti-competitive and anti-consumer to be trying to carve out their own section within this through superficial incompatibility.
Lets not forget the blatant crap they've pulled like gimping things when not used with their hardware, with a long list both before and after. The word "underhanded" doesn't even begin to describe their behaviour.
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Re: Mozilla is making it rain. |
Jul 7, 2016, 19:16 |
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RedEye9 wrote on Jul 7, 2016, 18:47:
Silly me, I was worried that Mozilla Firefox might fold.
Honestly Mozilla Firefox probably should fold.
It's become way bigger than it ever should have. It's a freaking browser.
It needs engineers, developers, security specialists, NOT marketers, advertising, accountants, execs.
Used to be a great browser, adding function, features, usability.
Now they're more worried about "Keeping up with the Chromians", social this and that. Being a giant profit machine, following trends (puke).
If engineers still had any say in it, they would at least have made it modular so one could avoid that crap (granted I stopped using it quite a while ago so maybe they have, though I expect they've gone further down that hole from what I see now and then on one of the PC's here that still uses it).
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| News Comments > AMD Drivers Address Power Issues |
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Re: AMD Drivers Address Power Issues |
Jul 7, 2016, 19:04 |
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RedEye9 wrote on Jul 7, 2016, 18:43:
From evilsofa at hardforum
So, the "minimal performance impact" caused by the compatibility toggle can be "substantially offset" by improving game performance by up to 3%?
Is this "substantially" the kind of substantial you talk about when discussing how much faster your new generation of video cards is than the previous generation?
I laughed out loud when I read AMD going on about 3% and that substantial offset.
3% is within the margin of error for benchmarking hahaha.
Really, I'm not liking this RTG (Radeon Technology Group) crap or Raja Koduri or certain people they've brought on. They have a mouth as big as Nvidia's and it's running circles around the engineers...
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